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I missed the Flyby of the MESSENGER spacecraft as it flew by Mercury last month. I looked at the pictures and read a few news releases after the fact, but I missed all the real-time updates that were coming out of NASA/JPL.
It turns out that I needn’t have worried. I just went through […]
For some reason, my sidebar no longer shows the page I had dedicated to the Mars Opposition. Since we’re getting pretty close, I thought I’d put this up again:
Image Credit: John Walker’s Solar System Live
As you can see, we’re catching up to Mars. Where I live, Mars is rising at about 7pm […]
Our Moon is very large compared to the moons of other planets in our solar system. The Moon is fully one-fourth the size of Earth, giving one of the largest Moon/Earth ratios in the solar system.
Other planets, Mars for example, have very tiny moons. Phobos and Deimos are essentially a couple of small […]
I love my Coronado PST Halpha telescope. I also love my new iOptron mount that guides it. Now I wish the Sun would cooperate and give me something a little more interesting to look at.
As you may know, the Sun has an 11 year activity cycle. During its maximum, you can see […]
Here’s where all of the inner planets are right now, this minute:
Image Credit: John Walker’s Solar System Live
Every time this post gets viewed, the image above will update to show where the planets are in their orbits as of that moment.
As you can see, Earth is approaching Mars and on December 18th, we’ll be […]
I took my vidya camera outside last night to see how the lunar eclipse would look on video tape. Here’s the raw video footage:
For some reason, the player sticks six seconds into the thing, just slide the slider over a bit and it’ll start back up, there must be something strange with the […]
Well, this isn’t surprising at all.
Surprise, surprise the upcoming movie Sunshine, the movie that tries to fix the part of the sun that is dying, isn’t any good.
It’s harder to forgive the lapses of logic and plausibility that I imagine arise from the filmmakers’ unfamiliarity with basic astronomy and physics and astronautics — what I […]
Great news! A very good friend of mine, Dr. Holly Gilbert, is going to be on the History channel tonight.
She’s going to appear in the first episode of a new series called The Universe in an episode titled Secrets of the Sun, it airs tonight at 9pm EST.
Holly and I worked together for many […]
Last weekend, I attended StarFest, the annual scifi convention held in Denver and learned about a movie coming out this summer called Sunshine. When I heard the premise of the film, I almost went supernova myself. Here’s what the film’s about. Someone, ANYONE, tell me what’s wrong with this picture:
“The premise of […]
Have you voted in my poll? No? That means you can’t see the results showing that just as many people don’t give a sh*t whether Pluto is called a planet as there are people that do.
I don’t care what we call Pluto, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s out there and that […]
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